How do we achieve the enormous cuts in the deficit mandated by GrammRudman in the relatively short time that the law allows without enfeebling our economy and undercutting our national security? If the Supreme Court reverses the lower court and declares GrammRudman constitutional in all respects. a continuation of the current budget deadlock between Congress and the President will result in automatic and indiscriminate acrosstheboard cutsperhaps amounting to as much as 25 percentin almost all domestic and military programs. Domestically. that would mean cuts in such basic programs as the number of air controllers and air safety inspectorsat a time when air safety Is a major concern of the American publicreductions In the Border Patrol. customs agents. the Coast Guard. the FBI. the Drug Enforcement Agency. and the Justice Department as a wholeat a time when the hard drugs that come across the border and the consequent crime worries us all. It would mean cutbacks in cancer research. and in educationthe font of our future engineers. physicists. mathematicians. and civic and cultural leaders. Militarily. the enormity of the reductions that would be required by GrammRudman under a continued Presidentialcongressional deadlock could seriously jeopardize our combat readiness and our basic national defense.
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